Portable clothes dryer



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PORTABLE CLOTHES DRYER Russell R. BramamAda, Okla.

Applicationaseptember 30, 1952, Serial No. 312,331

3 Claims. (Cl. -34-163) This invention relates to new and usefulimprovements and structural refinements in clothes dryers and theprincipal object of the invention is to provide a portable dryer whichmay be conveniently and effectively employed in small homes, apartments,etc., for quickly and efliciently drying clothes, which may be easilymoved from one location to another and which may be conveniently storedin a comparatively small space when it is not in use.

An important feature of the invention resides in the provision of adryer having a plurality of radial arms adapted to support clothesthereon, the arms having rows of apertures at the undersides thereof,and means being provided for delivering hot air under pressure into thearms for discharging through the apertures on the damp clothes fordrying the same.

Some of the advantages of the invention reside in its simplicity ofconstruction, in its efficient operation, and in its adaptability toeconomical manufacture.

With the above more important objects and features in view, and suchother objects and features as may become apparent as this specificationproceeds, the invention consists essentially of the arrangement andconstruction of parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich:

Figure l is a top plan view of the invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view taken substantially in the planeof the line 2-2 in Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is a fragmentary side elevational view of the dryer housing,one of the plugs and one of the clothes supporting arms or tubes.

Like characters of reference are employed to designate like parts inthe. specification and throughout the several views.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings in detail, the inventionconsists of a clothes dryer which is designated generally by thereference character and embodies in its construction a suitable base 12equipped with casters 14 and provided with a vertically adjustablestandard 16. This standard preferably consists of a pair of slidablytelescoped sections 16a, 16b, the section 16a having at its upper end areinforcing ring 18 equipped with a clamping screw 20. This screw isfrictionally engageable with the section 16b, so that the standard maybe locked in any desired vertically adjusted position.

A bell shaped housing 22 is mounted at the upper end of the standard 16,the housing having a bottom wall 24 provided at the center thereof withan invaginated portion 26 to which the upper end of the standard section16b is rigidly secured.

The upper portion of the housing 22 affords a substantially cylindricalchamber 28 accommodating a rotatable fan 30, the latter being secured tothe armature shaft 32 of an electric motor 34 mounted on the top wall 36of the housing. This top wall is provided with a plurality of air inletopenings '38.

A heating unit, electric-or otherwise, 40 is mounted in the housing 22immediately under the fan 30 and the cord 42 of this element as well asthe cord 44 of the 2,707,838 Patented May 10, 1955 motor 34 areconnected to a common source of electric supply.

The lower portion of the bell shaped housing 22, in-

cluding the invaginated center portion 26 of the bottom 24 affords adownwardly flared hot air chamber 46 having a marginal wall 48 providedwith a plurality of air outlet openings 50. These openings are intendedto removably receive inner end portions of tubular arms 52 which extendradially from the housing and have closed outer ends 54, as is bestshown in Figure 2. Each of the arms 52 is provided at the undersidethereof with a plurality of air outlet apertures 56.

When the invention is placed in use, damp clothes may beplaced on thearms 52 by draping the'same over the arms so that the clothes hangdownwardly in a doubled fashion. Thereupon, by energizing the motor 34and the heating element 40, air drawn through the inlet openings 38 bythe fan 30 will be passed over the heating element 40 and heatedthereby, so that when it is delivered under pressure of the fan throughthe arms 52 and outwardly through the apertures 56 as indicated by thearrows 58, the hot air will pass downwardly through the clothes, thatis, through the doubled thicknesses of clothes and will effectively drythe same.

The inner end portions of the arms 52 have secured thereto suitablestraps 60 which not only provide stops for limiting the extent to whichthe arms may be inserted inwardly through the openings but which alsoafford anchoring points for lengths of chain 62 which are attached tolugs 64 on the bottom wall 24 of the housing. Thus, when the apparatusis not in use, the arms 52 may be simply withdrawn from the openings 50and permitted to hang downwardly from the housing 22 by means of thelengths of chain 62.

Moreover, when the use of all the arms 52 is not desired for dryingpurposes, the arms which are not in use may be permitted to hangdownwardly from the chains 62 and the openings 50 which do not have arms52 inserted therein, may be closed by means of suitable plugs 66, asshown in Figure 3. These plugs are connected by flexible elements 68 tolugs 70 on the bottom wall 24 of the housing so that when the plugs 66are not in use they may remain suspended from the housing by means ofthe elements 68 as shown in Figure 2.

It is believed that the advantages and use of the inven tion will bereadily understood from the foregoing disclosure and accordingly,further description thereof at this point is deemed unnecessary.

While in the foregoing there has been shown and described the preferredembodiment of this invention it is to be understood that minor changesin the details of construction, combination and arrangement of parts maybe resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of theinvention as claimed.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A clothes drier comprising a base, an upright standard on said base,a housing mounted at the upper end of said standard and alfording anupper fan chamber having an air inlet at the top thereof and a circularlower air heating chamber flaring downwardly from said fan chamber andhaving a plurality of circumferentially spaced air outlet openings inthe side thereof, a heating unit provided in said air heating chamber, afan provided in the fan chamber above said heating unit and said heatingchamber, means for actuating said fan, and a plurality of tubesextending outwardly from said outlet openings and spacedcircumferentially around said air heating chamber to receive clothesthereon, said tubes being provided with rows of hot air outlet aperturesand having inner open ends to receive hot air from said air heatingchamber.

2. In a clothes drier, the combination of a standard, a housing mountedon said standard and aifording an upper fan chamber having an air inletat the top thereof and a circular lower air heating chamber flaringdownwardly from said fan chamber and having a plurality ofcircumferentially spaced air outlet openings in the side thereof, arotary fan provided in said fan chamber adjacent said air inlet andabove said heating chamber, a motor mounted on top of said fan chamberfor rotating said fan, a heating unit mounted in the air heating chamberunder the fan, and a plurality of clothes receiving tubes extendingradially from the air heating chamber and spaced around the same, saidtubes having closed outer ends and open inner end portions extendingthrough said outlet openings into said chamber, the tubes being providedat the underside thereof with rows of hot air outlet apertures.

3. A clothes drier comprising a base, an upright standard on said base,a housing mounted at the upper end of said standard and afiording achamber having an air inlet at the top thereof and a plurality of airoutlet openings at the sides thereof, a heating unit provided in saidchamber, a fan provided in the chamber above said heating unit, meansfor actuating said fan, and a plurality of tubes extending outwardlyfrom said outlet openings and adapted to receive clothes thereon, saidtubes being provided with rows of hot air outlet apertures, said tubesbeing removable from said openings, and closure plugs provided for saidopenings.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTSFOREIGN PATENTS 733,438 France July 11, 1932

